Three unique tandem gallery talks are offered throughout the run of the exhibition and arepaired with the film, Fold, Crumple, Crush. Each gallery talk speaker will share their distinctperspective on the works presented in the show. Participants may choose to attend one orboth components of each day's program. All programming will take place in Levitt Auditorium.

Eulanda Sanders is the Donna R. Danielson Professor in Textiles and Clothing at Iowa StateUniversity. Professor Sanders is a knitter and textile artist and has traveled to Ghana andused Ghanaian textiles in her apparel design work.

Catherine Hale is curator of African and non-Western art at the University of IowaMuseum of Art. Hale comes to the University from Carleton University in Canada, whereshe has been teaching, researching, and curating exhibitions in African art for theCarleton University Art Gallery and the Agnes Etherington Art Center at Queen's University.

Edward DeCarbo is adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute in New York City. He hastwo degrees in international relations and two others in anthropology and African studies.His field research is in West Africa with a focus on aesthetics, the place and practice ofthe arts in everyday life.